Author: Harold Steele Mackaye
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752436956
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Panchronicon by Harold Steele Mackaye
The Panchronicon
Author: Harold Steele Mackaye
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752436956
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Panchronicon by Harold Steele Mackaye
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752436956
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Panchronicon by Harold Steele Mackaye
The Panchronicon
Author: Harold Steele MacKaye
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
The Robot in the Closet
Author: Ron Goulart
Publisher: New York : Daw Books ; [Scarborough, Ont.] : New American Library of Canada
ISBN: 9780879976262
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Daw Books ; [Scarborough, Ont.] : New American Library of Canada
ISBN: 9780879976262
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Bookman
Author:
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Walden's Stationer and Printer
Author:
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Category : Stationery
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
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Category : Stationery
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
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Time Travel
Author: David Wittenberg
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823273334
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This “stimulating contribution to literary theory” reveals the deeply philosophical concerns and developments behind popular time travel sci-fi (London Review of Books). In Time Travel, literary theorist David Wittenberg argues that time travel fiction is not mere escapism, but a narrative “laboratory” where theoretical questions about storytelling—and, by extension, about the philosophy of temporality, history, and subjectivity—are presented in story form. Drawing on physics, philosophy, narrative theory, psychoanalysis, and film theory, Wittenberg links innovations in time travel fiction to specific shifts in the popularization of science, from nineteenth-century evolutionary biology to twentieth-century quantum physics and more recent “multiverse” cosmologies. Wittenberg shows how popular awareness of new science led to surprising innovations in the literary “time machine,” which evolved from a vehicle used for sociopolitical commentary into a psychological device capable of exploring the temporal structure and significance of subjects, viewpoints, and historical events. Time Travel draws on classic works of science fiction by H. G. Wells, Edward Bellamy, Robert Heinlein, Samuel Delany, and Harlan Ellison, television shows such as “The Twilight Zone” and “Star Trek,” and other popular entertainments. These are read alongside theoretical work ranging from Einstein, Schrödinger, Stephen Hawking to Gérard Genette, David Lewis, and Gilles Deleuze. Wittenberg argues that even the most mainstream audiences of popular time travel fiction and cinema are vigorously engaged with many of the same questions about temporality, identity, and history that concern literary theorists, media and film scholars, and philosophers.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823273334
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This “stimulating contribution to literary theory” reveals the deeply philosophical concerns and developments behind popular time travel sci-fi (London Review of Books). In Time Travel, literary theorist David Wittenberg argues that time travel fiction is not mere escapism, but a narrative “laboratory” where theoretical questions about storytelling—and, by extension, about the philosophy of temporality, history, and subjectivity—are presented in story form. Drawing on physics, philosophy, narrative theory, psychoanalysis, and film theory, Wittenberg links innovations in time travel fiction to specific shifts in the popularization of science, from nineteenth-century evolutionary biology to twentieth-century quantum physics and more recent “multiverse” cosmologies. Wittenberg shows how popular awareness of new science led to surprising innovations in the literary “time machine,” which evolved from a vehicle used for sociopolitical commentary into a psychological device capable of exploring the temporal structure and significance of subjects, viewpoints, and historical events. Time Travel draws on classic works of science fiction by H. G. Wells, Edward Bellamy, Robert Heinlein, Samuel Delany, and Harlan Ellison, television shows such as “The Twilight Zone” and “Star Trek,” and other popular entertainments. These are read alongside theoretical work ranging from Einstein, Schrödinger, Stephen Hawking to Gérard Genette, David Lewis, and Gilles Deleuze. Wittenberg argues that even the most mainstream audiences of popular time travel fiction and cinema are vigorously engaged with many of the same questions about temporality, identity, and history that concern literary theorists, media and film scholars, and philosophers.
Time Travel
Author: Paul J. Nahin
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421401207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
From H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov to Ursula K. Le Guin, time travel has long been a favorite topic and plot device in tales of science fiction and fantasy. But as any true SF fan knows, astounding stories about traversing alternate universes and swimming the tides of time demand plausible science. That’s just what Paul J. Nahin’s guide provides. An engineer, physicist, and published science fiction writer, Nahin is uniquely qualified to explain the ins and outs of how to spin such complex theories as worm holes, singularity, and relativity into scientifically sound fiction. First published in 1997, this fast-paced book discusses the common and not-so-common time-travel devices science fiction writers have used over the years, assesses which would theoretically work and which would not, and provides scientific insight inventive authors can use to find their own way forward or backward in time. From hyperspace and faster-than-light travel to causal loops and the uncertainty principle and beyond, Nahin’s equation-free romp across time will help writers send their characters to the past or future in an entertaining, logical, and scientific way. If you ever wanted to set up the latest and greatest grandfather paradox—or just wanted to know if the time-bending events in the latest pulp you read could ever happen—then this book is for you.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421401207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
From H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov to Ursula K. Le Guin, time travel has long been a favorite topic and plot device in tales of science fiction and fantasy. But as any true SF fan knows, astounding stories about traversing alternate universes and swimming the tides of time demand plausible science. That’s just what Paul J. Nahin’s guide provides. An engineer, physicist, and published science fiction writer, Nahin is uniquely qualified to explain the ins and outs of how to spin such complex theories as worm holes, singularity, and relativity into scientifically sound fiction. First published in 1997, this fast-paced book discusses the common and not-so-common time-travel devices science fiction writers have used over the years, assesses which would theoretically work and which would not, and provides scientific insight inventive authors can use to find their own way forward or backward in time. From hyperspace and faster-than-light travel to causal loops and the uncertainty principle and beyond, Nahin’s equation-free romp across time will help writers send their characters to the past or future in an entertaining, logical, and scientific way. If you ever wanted to set up the latest and greatest grandfather paradox—or just wanted to know if the time-bending events in the latest pulp you read could ever happen—then this book is for you.
The Book Buyer
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A review and record of current literature.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A review and record of current literature.